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The Biologista: It's Revolution, Baby
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008. It's Revolution, Baby. I talked about why I think this happens, and why it’s not actually a reflection on proper science at all. True scientific revolution is another story and an exciting one. Maybe not “tabloid exciting” though. Written by The Biologista. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Update: 03 April 2009. A nerdly April Fools Day bit for those who love the Evolution/Creation "debate":. New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong. Or "The Scientific Method".
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The Biologista: The Great Wormtown Spade Disaster (Part 1)
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Monday, 28 July 2008. The Great Wormtown Spade Disaster (Part 1). The story below is my attempt to put some of the core concepts of Evolution into terms that are accessible to a wide audience. I'd hope it could be read and understood by anyone from the age of 10 without patronising anyone over the age of 12. a tall order maybe. For anyone interested in what it all means, I've listed some of the concepts touched on in their scientific terms at the end. Part 2: In Which Disaster Happens. A nerdly April Foo...
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The Biologista: You Are What You Code
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008. You Are What You Code. An test it yourself, at least in principle. Let’s imagine you’ve done it so. What you’ll see down that eyepiece will look something like the picture I’ve provided, a strange blob with a distinctive dark dot somewhere inside it. Ne of your cheek cells. Cells. Are the units that make up our bodies. Ea. That blob is called the nucleus. Within which the carbon and its friends are combined to make that most fabled of compounds; DNA. It’s a blueprint for yo...
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The Biologista: Casey Luskin is The Wedge
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009. Casey Luskin is The Wedge. There's a multimedia element to my post this time around. Well, an annotated YouTube video. Trust me, the stupid isn't nearly as compelling until you watch it. Are total bullshit. Isn't it strange how the people raising this most important issue also happen to be peddling Intelligent Design, a crudely-disguised version of Creationism. Second, the ghost of a recent New Scientist article (which screamed Darwin Was Wrong. Written by The Biologista. It never c...
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The Biologista: Happy Darwin Day
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Thursday, 12 February 2009. He gave us a part of the picture. We have accepted those ideas of his which have been borne out in experimentation, and discarded those which did not. Concepts that brought the evidence together in a revolutionary way. He was the first to understand our true nature and our place in the world. For that, we celebrate a great man and a scientist who stands as an example of dedication and remarkable insight. Written by The Biologista. 12 February 2009 at 16:34. Or "How Science get...
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The Biologista: Science Says: Popular Science “Will Give You Cancer”
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Thursday, 31 July 2008. Science Says: Popular Science “Will Give You Cancer”. Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology." -. How often do we pick up a newspaper to. Find that science has yet. Of something we all like doing? Power lines cause cancer. Wait no, it protects against heart attacks. But it causes liver disease. Several weeks later, it’ll be something else. Suicides “Linked to Mobile Phone Masts”. Ever scepti...
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The Biologista: Hypothesis, theory and fact: First Assumptions Part 2
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Tuesday, 2 December 2008. Hypothesis, theory and fact: First Assumptions Part 2. I said I'd write something about conferences and fashionable science, but it didn't come. Until it does, here's something else I'm toying with. All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." -Thoreau. Written by The Biologista. What are you trying to say. I'm not getting any taller? 3 December 2008 at 00:24. Well, we could always go by Creationist logic. There is some margin of error as to when you will plateau...
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The Biologista: First assumptions
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Sunday, 27 July 2008. Beginnings are tricky. I feel like I should make a good impression. I've had a haircut and a shave. I'm wearing a trendy shirt and some sort of designer smell. I'm going to start at the beginning. As infants, each of us begins to form what a scientist would call “hypotheses”. Most, less pedantic, people would call them “theories”. That word has another meaning for the scientist, but I’ll come back to that. The gleeful child will test this new idea by experimentation. So, the one ess...
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The Biologista: Bacon Sandwich
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Thursday, 12 March 2009. I'm pretty busy writing up my work at the moment,. Break in posting this month. I'll try to fire out a few short but useful entries over the coming weeks rather than saving it all up for the monolithic posts I usually make. But here's where it gets interesting (stop rolling your eyes please). Imagine the risk of catching a. You get exactly the same punch in a Daily Mail headline as the gun risk, and yet in reality they're not even vaguely similar. Released under the terms of the.
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The Biologista: Alternative Expectations
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Monday, 18 August 2008. Just where did this sense of disillusionment with conventional medicine come from? I have some notions on that. Following the sudden revolution. That began with the sanitation practices of the late 19th century, the western world witnessed an unprecedented improvement in public health. The work of scientists such as Koch and Pasteur did away with vague notions of the nature of disease. Ever hear of miasma theory? Some chiropractors would rather block the process of scientific crit...
